What do you get when you cross Miami’s oldest bar with Miami’s newest food trend? A food truck roundup at Tobacco Road this Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m., of course.. The Road, the Magic City’s oldest gin joint, will host its first weekly food truck roundup in the back…
It was a beautiful evening for the Biscayne Triangle Food Truck Roundup, held in the parking lot of American Legion Post #29 off Biscayne and 64th. Food truck lovers spread blankets or dined on small picnic tables, enjoying the bay breeze. 12 Trucks were at the roundup yesterday, including Caza…
Tim Doolittle has recently been announced as the new chef de cuisine at Emeril’s Miami Beach — although he’s been working there since early December. Doolittle started out cooking at some of the finer restaurants of his native Kansas City, including the Beard-winning The American Restaurant. I asked Tim if…
As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 93…
Food truck meet-ups in Miami leave you with a staggering number of choices. Each one is colored in bright hues and has a catchy name or cute mascot. Walk through the line of trucks and you’ll likely pass a standout wrapped in flames, invoking a meal that’s flavorful, meaty and…
The second iteration of Street Food Fridays returns tomorrow to a new, larger location in front of the Arsht Center.Seventeen trucks including the Burger Beast truck — with Shake Shack on board — will participate in the gathering, which The Burger Beast, The Miami Herald and LaLey Enterprises launched in…
Yesterday’s challenge was a tough one, but Cakeartbycolleen guessed it. Congrats! It was Melissa d’Arabian, host of Ten Dollar Dinners with Melissa d’Arabian and champion to cheapskates everywhere. Now you get the Hamilton reference? As in, the guy on a $10 bill? Riiiigggghtt.Okay, now be the first to figure out…
The sandwich cubano is a Miami treasure, gulped down by countless customers every day. Over the years (since 1974), Latin American Cafeteria has been associated with the biggest, baddest rendition in town. But the question has often been: Which is the real Latin American Cafeteria? The answer would be Raul…
It is seemingly obligatory these days for any new restaurant to proudly tout local sourcing and sustainability — whether totally true or not. The word organic is planted on menus like corn in Nebraska. So when Sustain Restaurant + Bar opened this past December with a mission “to support farmers”…
Don’t be that guy (or girl) who settles for any of these unforgivable last-minute Walgreens candies (or, worse, a teddy bear holding a heart.) If you’re reading this blog, chances are you have particular culinary taste — and probably so does your valentine.If your date appreciates a sugar fix and…
A really fun part of my job as New Times blogger is interviewing chefs and personalities in the food business. I’ve found that most people in this industry are witty and charming, so I was looking forward to my phone call with Top Chef All-Stars contestant and Restauranteur Fabio Viviani…
Good job, Slzitrin, for being the first to post on yesterday’s blog that the kid in the photo was Duff Goldman, otherwise known as The Ace of Cakes.Want to win a family four-pack of tickets to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Kohl’s Fun and Fit as a Family…
Food truck round-ups are so popular that multiple meet-ups take place at the same time on the same nights. Busy, though, is never a problem at these events.This rundown of food court locations includes four new sites, including Tuesday night’s North End Biscayne Triangle Truck Roundup, Thursday night’s Biscayne Plaza…
As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices…
In the ever-changing universe of food truck gatherings, a new twist is on the way: This coming Sunday, Feb. 13 (and every Sunday thereafter), from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, the “Brickell Truck Rally” will take place at Tobacco Road (626 South Miami Ave.). In the line-up: Dim Ssam a GoGo,…
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and even Pollo Tropical has a Valentine’s Day special going (two dine for $9.99, if you must know). If you haven’t made your plans, you should probably do so now before restaurants fill up (the lovely Gibraltar is fully booked) and events sell…
Congratulations to anon1 for realizing yesterday’s kid photo was Chef Michelle Bernstein of Michy’s, Sra. Martinez, and Check, Please! fame.If you would like to win a family four-pack of tickets to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Kohl’s Fun and Fit as a Family featuring Kellogg’s Kidz Kitchen (try…
Confused yet by all the street food court change-ups in the last couple weeks? In a nutshell, here’s what’s going on:BTTR, the popular Biscayne Triangle Truck Roundup near Biscayne Boulevard and NE 109th Street in North Miami, was forced to take a couple Tuesday nights off after it got too…
Ahmet Karaca is the Happy Greek. One reason for his glee is that he’s got a new set of wheels (called Chef on 4 Wheels) from which tonight, at the once-again-newly-located Biscayne Truck Triangle Roundup (127th and Biscayne Blvd.), he’ll be serving “gyros with warm pita bread stuffed with lettuce,…
As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 95…
As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 96…
Or, “How to Succeed at Veganism Without Really Trying.”Vegans are humans too. Like most Americans, we have only so much time to dedicate to food preparation. So it is an error when outsiders ponder the vegan lifestyle and automatically throw up their hands in mock exhaustion, shouting “I’d never have…
